New America: Landlocked or Lebensraum?

With the Pacific Ocean potentially becoming a Chinese lake, and the balkanization of America foreseeable, will New America’s future be landlocked, or lebensraum?

In another example of America’s failure at foreign policy and China’s ascendancy, after publicly calling Obama a “son of a whore” and signing a new trade deal with China, the Philippines President asked U.S. forces to leave his nation. China has recently started building naval bases on reefs, the Scarborough Shoal, which had formerly been Philippine territory. With them in place, they will more firmly control the South China Sea, and beyond.

China has just made a deal with the East African country of Djibouti to build a deep water naval port there, and a base which will be home to 10,000 Chinese troops. The purpose of the new port there will be to secure the transport of oil tankers full of the petroleum…